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mon posted: Sun 2026-02-08 17:32:51 tags: n/a
brekarito 30g cocoa/soy bev 29g litter genie Discord has folded to UK mandatory social-media self-doxxing regulation. So, soon Discord users will have to upload some form of ID or perhaps work with a third-party mass-doxxing service to keep using their accounts. Castle Age settled on Discord as a platform for community engagement around 2017. For my stint playing Realm of the Mad God, I also lurked on that Discord, and though I hardly followed them at all beyond initial landing, Mensa's TTRP... (...more)
sun posted: Sun 2026-02-08 04:27:58 tags: n/a
cocoa soy and supplement powder pods pipelined thru Sat 8 pepper jack / turkey kielbasa brekaritos added to Mrs batch load / run shwasher * * * I should have internalized this lesson long before yesterday: browning and omeletting one burrito's worth of ingredients at a time is by far the most time-consuming way to make batches of brekaritos. BUT browning and scrambling 8 ritos' ingredients in one go, tends to give inconsistent filling ratios. The middle way is dice+brown all the meat at... (...more)
sat posted: Sat 2026-02-07 05:14:34 tags: n/a
3+ weeks into the new tracker sheet, I haven't NOT taken 200mg caf to kick-start the day, or the cocktail of [phytosterol + isoflavone + creatine] powders; and the one time I skipped cocoa / soy protein bev, it was to have some other high-protein jigger. Clearly those habits are solid; those tracker rows aren't functional, just empty ritual. The 29g protein bev does figure into protein tracking though, so that should stay on the sheet. Last year I had a row-per-day tracker with: weight, cal ... (...more)
fri posted: Fri 2026-02-06 07:58:41 tags: n/a
6:30a alarm, up by 6:45; metabolic usuals by 8a * * * Long thoughts about how character build choices led very different role-played portrayals of Tuzo and Clank in the last campaign. Tuzo was built on optimal melee features at the expense of soft skills or options that tie into less cut-and-dried aspects of the game. It's not a stunning new observation that a huge chunk of 5th Edition D+D consists of exhaustive coverage of resolving combat. What was a new thought today is that optimizing Tuzo fo... (...more)
too bad we're stuck calling it "pedophilia" posted: Fri 2026-02-06 05:11:38 tags: n/a
"Anglophile" denotes someone who "admires England, its people, and its culture". Admiration "Cinephiles" and "audiophiles" are movie and music enthusiasts, respectively. Enthusiasm We only find that "-phile" suffix twisted to denote pathology in psychology's raft of "paraphilias": necrophilia, zoophilia, et al., and of course the one in current news 4385294 times a day: pedophilia. It's too bad that term is so entrenched in lay discourse. I believe it muddies popular understanding and leaves ... (...more)